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  May, 2007 - Issue 0017

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Notes from the Western Edge is a collection of audio profiles of musicians working on the edges of Jazz, New Music, Electronics, and the sonic spaces in between.
   Produced in Los Angeles by Richard Paske, NFWE was published monthly from January, 2006 through July, 2007 and now includes 38 profiles, with more to be added on an occasional basis. To listen, use the ISSUE menu or click on a name in the Artist list on the right.

 Billy Bang

When kids in his Bronx neighborhood first nick-named him after a cartoon character, Billy Bang didn't like it. But the name stuck, and nobody calls him William Walker any more. Bang's life has taken many twists and turns - from Mobile, Alabama to Harlem and the Bronx to a New England prep school...and from the jungles of Viet Nam to a life of comfort in Berlin. Along the way, music has sustained him through both ups and downs. Hear him tell it like it is...    Photo: Alan Nahigian
Billy Bang
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 John Lindberg

Not many sixteen-year-olds know what they want to do with their lives, but John Lindberg did. Once he heard recordings of the greatest bass players in jazz driving the music home with their thunderous power, he knew exactly what he wanted to do. So he took the extraordinary steps of dropping out of a Michigan high school and moving to where his musical heroes were - New York City. From there, his music has taken him all over the world as both a bassist and a composer.
John Lindberg
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